slovodefinícia
bounty
(mass)
bounty
- odmena
bounty
(encz)
bounty,hojnost n: Zdeněk Brož
bounty
(encz)
bounty,odměna n: Zdeněk Brož
bounty
(encz)
bounty,subvence [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač
bounty
(encz)
bounty,úroda n: Zdeněk Brož
Bounty
(gcide)
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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1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.]
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Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
--Gower.
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2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or
liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea. --Shak.
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3. That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning
bounties." --Cowper.
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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.
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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.
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Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence.
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bounty
(wn)
bounty
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]
bounty
(devil)
BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who
has nothing to get all that he can.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects
every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal
instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His
creatures.
Henry Ward Beecher
BOUNTY
(bouvier)
BOUNTY. A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by' the government,
to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do to
the public. As bounty upon the culture of silk; the bounty given to an
enlisted soldier; and the like. It differs from a reward, which is
generally applied to particular cases; and from a payment, as there is no
contract on the part of the receiver of the bounty.

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bounty hunter
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bounty hunter,lovec odměn (zločinců) web
Bounty
(gcide)
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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1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.]
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Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
--Gower.
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2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or
liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea. --Shak.
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3. That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning
bounties." --Cowper.
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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.
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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.
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Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence.
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Bounty jumper
(gcide)
jumper \jump"er\ (j[u^]mp"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, jumps.
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2. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.
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3. A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners
which are in one piece with the poles that form the
thills. [U.S.] --J. F. Cooper.
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4. (Zool.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly,
under Cheese.
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5. (Eccl.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain
Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was
characterized by violent convulsions.
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6. (Horology) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to
lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
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Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary.

Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.
[1913 Webster]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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1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.]
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Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
--Gower.
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2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or
liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
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My bounty is as boundless as the sea. --Shak.
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3. That which is given generously or liberally. "Thy morning
bounties." --Cowper.
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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.
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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.
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Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence.
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Bountyhood
(gcide)
Bountihead \Boun"ti*head\, Bountyhood \Boun"ty*hood\, n.
Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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