Bounty - Definition

n 1: payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts
such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or
enlisting in the military [syn: bounty, premium]
2: the property of copious abundance [syn: amplitude,
bountifulness, bounty]
3: generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely [syn:
bounty, bounteousness]
4: 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 [syn: Bounty, H.M.S. Bounty]