Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hap"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hap \Hap\, v. t. [OE. happen.]
To clothe; to wrap.
The surgeon happed her up carefully. --Dr. J.
Brown.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hap \Hap\, n. [Cf. {Hap} to clothe.]
A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hap \Hap\, n. [Icel. happ unexpected good luck. [root]39.]
That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also,
the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune;
accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. --Chaucer.
Whether art it was or heedless hap. --Spenser.
Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build
Their hopes on haps. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some
with traps. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hap \Hap\, v. i. [OE. happen. See {Hap} chance, and cf.
{Happen}.]
To happen; to befall; to chance. --Chaucer.
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hap
n : an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps
and mishaps of his life"
v : come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place
off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed
important" [syn: {happen}, {go on}, {pass off}, {occur},
{pass}, {come about}, {take place}]
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