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

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

In a hapless, unlucky manner.

An order of freshwater fishes, including the true pikes, cyprinodonts, and blindfishes.

Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

By hap, chance, luck, or accident; perhaps; it may be. Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. Acts v. 39.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.

By chance; peradventure; haply. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak.

Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. Boyle.

A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

Seamless. [R.]

To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [Obs.] Spenser.

Shaped like an awl.

To happen to. [Obs.]

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.