adv., now Sc. [f. BONNY a. + -LY2.] In a bonny manner; beautifully, finely, pleasantly.
1595. Duncan, Append. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Scite, eleganter, pretilie, bonnilie.
1673. Dryden, Assign., I. i. Wks. 1725, III. 295. I am glad to see you look so bonily to-day.
1680. Spir. Popery, 29. The work of Reformation went Bonnily on.
1785. Burns, Cotter’s Sat. Nt., iii. His wee bit ingle blinkin bonilie.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xlii. It was a goodly and pleasant land, and sloped bonnily to the western sun.
