Like "trident" with a missing "t."
"Rident"
Laughing; cheerful.
[From Latin ridere (to laugh) which is also the source of ridiculous,
deride, and risible.]
"Mamma was gracious and happy. Hetty was radiant and rident." --William Makepeace Thackeray; The Virginians; 1859
Laughing; cheerful.
[From Latin ridere (to laugh) which is also the source of ridiculous,
deride, and risible.]
"Mamma was gracious and happy. Hetty was radiant and rident." --William Makepeace Thackeray; The Virginians; 1859

