(bon′it) noun
1. A covering, or an article of apparel, for the head.
2. An outdoor headdress for women.
3. A brimless cap for men and boys, worn especially in Scotland.
4. An American Indian headdress of feathers.
5. The velvet cap lining a crown or coronet.
6. A gambler's or auctioneer's decoy.
7. The yellow waterlily.
8. One of various constructions or devices having a form or use analogous to that of a bonnet.
9. A cover or plate which can be removed to inspect a valve or other part of machinery in a chamber.
10. Any metal hood, canopy, projection, or cowl.
11. Naut. A supplementary sail laced to the foot of a jib of a vessel in light winds.
12. Brit. The hood of an automobile.
—v.t. To cover with or as with a bonnet. [<OF (chapel de), bonet (cap of) bonet (a fabric) <Med. L bonetus]

(bô·ne′), Georges,
1889–1973, French diplomat.
—Henri,
1888–1978, French historian and diplomat.