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Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.

Young and inexperienced.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure.

(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Tenderly.

(now rare) To make delicate; to weaken.

(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore. +

(diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.

Firefighting apparatus.

To work on a tender.

Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.

(payment) A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

(offer) (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

(formal) To offer, to give.

To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.