Bon"ny (?), a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]
1.
Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.
Gay.
Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.
Burns.
2.
Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
Be you blithe and bonny.
Shak.
Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matichime ere he quitted his bowl.
Sir W. Scott.
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Bon"ny, n. Mining
A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
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