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]