[tend] 
| 1. | to attend to by work or services, care, etc.: to tend a fire. |
| 2. | to look after; watch over and care for; minister to or wait on with service: to tend the sick. |
| 3. | Nautical. to handle or attend to (a rope). |
| 4. | to attend by action, care, etc. (usually fol. by to). |
| 5. | tend on or upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve: She tended on the sick and dying with infinite compassion. |
