a. Now only dial. [f. VIEW sb. + -LY1.] Of good or attractive appearance.
c. 1536. Mem. Dk. Richmond, in Camden Misc., III. p. lxxiii. To knowe whether the kinges highnes will take a sertyne of my lordes servauntes suche as be veiwly men, and men of good honesty.
1638. Brathwait, Barnabees Jrnl., III. (1818), 137. A captain’s wife most vewlie.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Viewly, pleasant to the sight, striking to the eye, handsome.
1828–. in northern dial. glossaries.
1907. M. C. F. Morris, Nunburnholme, 233. What our village has lost in house architecture and picturesque arrangement of buildings is made up for by the more ‘viewly’ appearance of the countryside.
