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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

[R.]

W. Harrison (1586).

(Zool.)

One of the first antlers of a deer.

Noun.

A fondling; one made tender by too much kindness.

The first horns of a deer.

tenderling ‎(plural tenderlings)

(archaic) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
- 1586, W. Harrison
  Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.
(zoology) One of the first antlers of a deer.