Crossword clues for bounties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bounty \Boun"ty\, n.; pl. Bounties. [OE. bounte goodness, kindness, F. bont['e], fr. L. bonitas, fr. bonus good, for older duonus; cf. Skr. duvas honor, respect.]
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Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.]
Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
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Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea.
--Shak. That which is given generously or liberally. ``Thy morning bounties.''
--Cowper.-
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bounty English)
Usage examples of "bounties".
Sayjak realized that bounties were not normally offered until a situation reached a point where eeksy activity was deemed inadequate.
It was from the bounties, in fact, that he had gotten the notion of taking Big Betsy's head.
The bounties were freer, wilder, nastier, more worthy of respect-Usually, they were loners or trackers in small parties, and he had to assume that those to the west and the north were a part of this entire business.
These bounties, he was suddenly certain, wanted him and his people for a particular vengeance.
He sud-denly thought of the other bounties coming here because he had given them fear, fear that they could become the prey.
Then he straightened for a moment and regarded the twelve dead bounties, seated with their backs against tree trunks, their heads in their laps, hands positioned as if holding them.
Dortak called out, "the bounties drew their lines around your clan, came to kill your people.
By your-selves, none of you will stand against a massing of bounties such as this.
This is because I feel that the bounties and the eeksies will mark this place in some way, as a trouble spot, and it will no longer be safe to live here.
He had been about to bluster, to say that he would kill all of the later bounties, too.
Even if the bounties found the clans again later they would have no way of knowing whether they were the ones who had been behind this night's work.
But while some of the bounties caught the flash of moire and perhaps even fragmented glimpses of Deep Fields, Lydia's was a more pleasant while equally engaging prospect.
Fortunately, the People's experience at the western one had given them the confidence they'd needed, shown them that bounties could be overwhelmed by the People.
The eeksies and the bounties did not dare come into the People's territory anymore.
Big Betsy wanted them to acquire an arsenal of weapons more powerful than machetes—weapons like those the eeksies and the bounties used: CF prods, pistols, rifles.