Definition of "canty"

Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe

1790, Robert Burns, Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson

My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]