Hypertext Webster Gateway: "riant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Riant \Ri`ant"\, a. [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L.
ridere.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
riant
adj : showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness; "laughing
children" [syn: {laughing(a)}]
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