From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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, fall out, come about, take place]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hap \Hap\, v. i. [OE. happen. See Hap chance, and cf.
Happen.]
To happen; to befall; to chance. --Chaucer.
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Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hap \Hap\ (h[a^]p), v. t. [OE. happen.]
To clothe; to wrap.
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The surgeon happed her up carefully. --Dr. J.
Brown.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hap \Hap\, n. [Cf. Hap to clothe.]
A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Whether art it was or heedless hap. --Spenser.
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Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build
Their hopes on haps. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. --Shak.
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