\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.