Pronunciations
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/hæp/
Noun
A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
Usage- Archaic
- Uncountable
A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event.
Usage- Archaic
- Countable
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Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield.
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And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
Each day ſtill better others happineſſe, Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap, Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.
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URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
[I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]
He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
Verb
To happen; to befall; to chance.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
- Literary
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"But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....
"We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap."
To happen to.
Usage- Archaic
- Literary
- Transitive
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What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
Noun
Happenings; events; goings-on.
Usage- Archaic
- in-plural
- Slang
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Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"
Noun
A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
Usage- Pennsylvania
- Scotland
- UK usage
- Western
- Archaic
Verb
To wrap, clothe.
Usage- Archaic
- dialectal
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Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake.
The surgeon happed her up carefully.
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The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.
Noun
Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
Usage- Archaic
Noun
an accidental happening
- Broader terms
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he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life
Verb
come to pass
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What is happening?
The meeting took place without an incident
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Nothing occurred that seemed important