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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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Bon·ny a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.]
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 matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. --Sir W. Scott.
bonny
adj : very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny
bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
[syn: bonnie, comely, fair]
[also: bonniest, bonnier]