tend

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To have a tendency: paint that tends toward bubbling and peeling over time.
2. v. To be disposed or inclined: tends toward exaggeration.
3. v. To move or extend in a certain direction: Our ship tended northward.
4. v. To have the care of; watch over; look after: tend a child.
5. v. To manage the activities and transactions of; run: tend bar; tend a store in the owner's absence.
6. v. To be an attendant or servant.
7. v. To apply one's attention; attend: no time to tend to my diary.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To reach out; offer; tender.
2. To move or be directed, literally or figuratively; hold a course.
3. To have a tendency to operate in some particular direction or way; have a bent or inclination to effective action in some particular direction; aim or serve more or less effectively and directly: commonly followed by an infinitive: as, exercise tends to strengthen the muscles.
4. To serve, contribute, or conduce in some degree or way; be influential in some direction, or in promoting some purpose or interest; have a more or less direct bearing or effect (upon something).
5. Synonyms To incline, lean, verge, trend.
6. To conduce.
7. To attend; wait upon as an assistant or protector; guard.
8. To look after; take care of; have the charge, care, or supervision of: as, to tend a machine; to tend a flock; to tend a sick person.
9. To be attentive to; attend to; be mindful of; mind.
10. To wait upon so as to execute; be prepared to perform.
11. Nautical, to watch, as a vessel at anchor, at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and by some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cable. Synonyms and To keep, protect, nurse.
12. To attend; wait as an attendant or servant: with on or upon.
13. To be in waiting; be ready for service; attend.
14. To be attentive; listen.
15. See tind.
16. Obsolete past participle of teen.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
2. v. To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (O. Eng. Law), obsolete To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
2. v. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
3. v. To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
4. v. To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
5. v. obsolete To await; to expect.
6. v. To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
7. v. To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. have care of or look after
2. v. manage or run
3. v. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined