Emily Dickinson Lexicon

booty, n. [ME 'advantage, profit'.] (webplay: dishonesty, plunder).

1. Loot; spoils; pillage; treasure; stolen goods; property obtained by the use of force; [fig.] landscape; earth; horizon; (see Numbers 31:32).
2. Loved ones; beloved dead; deceased people.
3. Profit; gain; advantage; goodness; blessing; [word play] beauty.