Bounty

1. 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.
2. n. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
3. n. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
4. n. That which is given generously or liberally.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.