sightly

Adjective

sightly (comparative sightlier, superlative sightliest)

1. (archaic) Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing.
   • Many brave, sightly horses.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
   • Harry's sightly—yes, he's as sightly as the tallest pine of the mountains, and the Sarpent has named him accordingly; however, some fancy good looks, and some fancy good conduct, only.1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
2. (archaic) Offering a good view.
   • […] yet the defendant wrongfully and unjustly intending to injure the plaintiff, and deprive him of his right to a free, safe, and unobstructed passage into and upon the said streets to and from his said lot, and to deprive him and his lot of the benefit and advantage of the sightly and elevated...1887, L.J. Critchfield, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio: Volume 9
   • 30 acres land, situated high and sightly, commanding an unobstructed view of the surrounding country, […]1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Henry Hodgman Saylor, Country Life in America - Volume 13, page 361
3. (archaic) Open to sight; conspicuous.
   • In 1916 the people voted to have a High school and to build a new building which is now, 1917, completed and is a beautiful modern one-story brick building, known as Lincoln High school, located in the northeastern part of the village on a sightly spot known as Lincoln Hill.1917, Eben Doublas Pierce, History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
   • There is also a soldiers' monument on a sightly situation on Grand Avenue.1922, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 15, page 702