RIAL
Ri"al (, n.
Defn: A Spanish coin. See Real. [Obs.]
RIAL
Ri*al", a.
Defn: Royal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RIAL
Ri"al, n. Etym: [From Royal.]
Defn: A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.
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.
RIB Rib, n. Etym: [AS. rib, ribb; akin to D. rib, G. rippe, OHG. rippa, rippi, Dan. ribbe, Icel. rif, Russ. rebro.]
1. (Anat.)