HAP

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

2.
n.

A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

3.
n.

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.

4.
v.

To happen; to befall; to chance. Chaucer. Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. Shak.

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