Word Meanings - TENDRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tender; an offer. Heylin.

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• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• OFFERTORY
  1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to
• TENDER-HEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
• TENDERLOIN
  A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
• TENDERFOOT
  A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
• OFFERING
  1. The act of an offerer; a proffering. 2. That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering. They are polluted offerings more
• OFFERABLE
  Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
• TENDER-HEFTED
  Having great tenderness; easily moved. Shak.
• TENDERLING
  One of the first antlers of a deer. (more info) 1. One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. W. Harrison
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PROFFER
  forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou
• NOLO CONTENDERE
  A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
• INTENDER
  One who intends. Feltham.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• SCOFFERY
  The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
• BARTENDER
  A barkeeper.
• COFFERWORK
  Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.
• HEAVE OFFERING
  An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix.
• CONTENDER
  One who contends; a contestant.
• COFFER
  A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. (more info) 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. Fig.: