Sc. Also 5 (pl.) bonalais, 8 bonnaille, bonnaillie, 9 bonnail. [ad. F. bon good + aller to go, going] Good-speed, fare-well; as in ‘to drink one’s bonallie’: cf. boon voyage, BOON a. 2.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IX. 45. Bonalais drank rycht glaidly in a morow, Syn leiff thai tuk.
17[?]. Trial for Witchcr., in Statist. Acc. Scotl., XVIII. 557 (Jam.). His son sailed … and gave not his father his bonnaillie.
1811. Scott, Biogr. Mem. Leyden, in Edin. Ann. Reg., IV. A party of his friends had met … to drink, in Scottish phrase, his Bonallie. Ibid. (1830), Farew. Mackenzie, 4. I drank his bonnail And farewell to Mackenzie, High Chief of Kintail.
