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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bonny \Bon"ny\, noun (Mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bonny \Bon"ny\, adjective [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 matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bonny
adjective: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "bonny": Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, attractive, auspicious, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, boulevardier, braw, bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, cogent, comely, commendable, curvaceous, curvy, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, grand, handsome, healthy, helpful, high liver, kind, laudable, likely, lovely, lovely to behold, man-about-town, nice, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, presentable, pretty, profitable, pulchritudinous, regal, royal, shapely, sightly, skillful, slender, sound, splendid, sport, stacked, statuesque, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked
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