Category:Riant

Ri`ant", a. Etym: [f. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, l. ridere.]

Defn: laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to The view, as a landscape. In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, With a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.