Thesaurus: bounty

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1. n. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
2. n. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
3. n. That which is given generously or liberally.
4. n. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
5. n. payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military
6. n. the property of copious abundance
7. n. (literary) generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely
8. 1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower. 2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence. My bounty is as boundless as the sea. Shak. 3. That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning bounties." Cowper. 4. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures. Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] -- Queen Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings. Syn. -- Munificence; generosity; beneficence.
9. n:100 n. payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military n. generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely n. a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat