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