tat tender

[Eng. attend; suff. -er.] An attendant. "The gypsies were there, Like lords to appear: With such their attenders As you thought offenders." - Ben Jonson. ạt-těnd'-ing, pr . par . & a . [ATTEND.] "Th' attending heralds, as by office bound, With kindled flames the tripod-vase surround." Pope: Homer's Ihad , bk. xxiii., 49, 50,