BONNY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

2.
a.

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.

3.
n.

A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.