Thesaurus: hap
To clothe; to wrap.
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Definitions
- v. t. To clothe; to wrap.
- n. A cloak or plaid.
- 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.
- v. i. To happen; to befall; to chance.
- n. an accidental happening
- v. come to pass
- To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown. A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.] 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. To happen; to befall; to chance. Chaucer. Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. Shak. HA'PENNY; HAP'PENNY Hap'"pen*ny, n. A half-penny.
- To clothe; to wrap.The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.
- v:34/n:66 n. an accidental happening