bounty jumper (bountijumper)

One who boundle ne (bound'les-nes), n. The state or quality of being boundle or without limits. bounduret (boun'dur), n. [ bound1 + -ure. Cf. boundary .] A limit or bound. Sir T. Herbert . bounteous (boun'tē-us), a . [Early mod. E. also bountuous ; bontouous , earlier bountevous , boun tyre us , bontyvous , bontif , bontive , benevolent, bonte , goodne , bounty: see bounty and-ous.] 1. Full of good- ne to others; giving or disposed to give free- ly; free in bestowing gifts; bountiful; generserted to enlist agains ously liberal. Such was her soul; abhorring avarice, Bounteous , but almost bounteous to a vice. Dryden, Eleonora, 1. 86. I wonder'd at the bounteous hours, The slow result of winter showers: You scarce could see the gra for flowers. Tennyson, Two Voices. drawn in the year 577, am not disposed to disbelieve the record of the events which led to the fixing of that boun dary. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 105. Beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous large given thee to give? Shak., Sonnets, iv. enlists as a soldier for the sake of a bounty offered, and then deserts, as during the Ameri can civil war of 1861-65. Bringing into the service many bounty - jumpers , as they were called, who enlisted merely for money, and soon de Higginson, Young Folks' Hist. U. S., p. 306. Bouphonia (bö-fö'ni-ä), n . pl . [Gr. βουφόνια , α festival with sacrifices of oxen, βουφονεῖν , slaughter oxen), βούς , an ox, + -φόνος, slaying (cf. φόνος , φονή , slaughter, murder), φένειν , slay, kill.] An ancient Attie festival in honor of Zeus, more commonly called Diipolia (which see).