The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tender \Ten"der\, n.
   1. (Law) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of
      service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or
      forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or
      nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the
      amount of a note, with interest.
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   Note: To constitute a legal tender, such money must be
         offered as the law prescribes. So also the tender must
         be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought
         to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.
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   2. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of
      a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid
      for a contract.
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            A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. --South.
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   3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of
      an obligation. --Shak.
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   Legal tender. See under Legal.

   Tender of issue (Law), a form of words in a pleading, by
      which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it
      to the appropriate mode of decision. --Burrill.
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