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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Bonny

/(-ny̆)/ · Bon·ny · IPA /bˈɑniː/
01 a. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
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    Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
    “Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.” Gay.
    “Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.” Burns.
  2. 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.
02 n. A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
  1. 1.
    A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.(Mining)