Definitions
1.nounCare, kind concern, regard.
2.nounThe inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
3.adjectiveSensitive or painful to the touch.
4.adjectiveEasily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate."tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit"
5.adjectivePhysically weak; not able to endure hardship.
6.adjective(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
7.adjectiveSensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
8.adjectiveFond, loving, gentle, sweet."Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children."
9.adjectiveYoung and inexperienced.
10.adjectiveAdapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic."tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain"
11.adjectiveApt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate."a tender subject"
12.adjectiveHeeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
13.adjectiveExciting kind concern; dear; precious.
14.adjectiveCareful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.