Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bonny

Bonny (-ny) , adjective

[Old English boni, prob. from French bon, fem. bonne, good, from Latin bonus good. See Bounty, and compare 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. — Shakespeare
Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. — Sir W. Scott

Bonny , noun

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