Hap
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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Hap (hăp), v. t. [OE. happen.] To clothe; to wrap.
The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.
Hap, n. [Cf. Hap to clothe.] A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
Hap, n. [Icel. happ unexpected good luck. √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.
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.