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12 dictionary results for: hap
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hap1       [hap] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, happed, hap·ping.
–noun
1.one's luck or lot.
2.an occurrence, happening, or accident.
–verb (used without object)
3.to happen: if it so hap.

[Origin: 1150–1200; ME < ON happ luck, chance; akin to OE gehæp fit, convenient; prob. akin to OCS kobŭ auspice, OIr cob victory]
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hap2       [hap, ap] Pronunciation Key Chiefly Pennsylvania.
–noun
1.a comforter or quilt.
–verb (used with object)
2.to cover with or as with a comforter or quilt.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME happen to cover; perh. b. lappen lap2 and OF happer to seize]
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Hap       [hahp, khahp] Pronunciation Key
–noun
Apis (def. 1).
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Ar·nold       [ahr-nld] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
2.Sir Edwin, 1832–1904, English poet and journalist.
3.Henry H. (“Hap”), 1886–1950, U.S. general.
4.Matthew, 1822–88, English essayist, poet, and literary critic.
5.his father, Thomas, 1795–1842, English clergyman, educator, historian, and writer.
6.Thur·man Wesley       [thur-muhn] Pronunciation Key, 1891–1969, U.S. lawyer and writer.
7.a town in E Missouri. 19,141.
8.a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “eagle” and “power.”
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hap       (hāp)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Fortune; chance.
  2. A happening; an occurrence.

intr.v.   happed, hap·ping, haps
To happen.


[Middle English, from Old Norse happ; see kob- in Indo-European roots.]

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hap 
c.1205, "chance, luck," from O.N. happ "chance, good luck," from P.Gmc. *khapan (source of O.E. gehæp "convenient, fit"). Meaning "good fortune" is from c.1225.

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hap

noun
1. an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life" 

verb
1. come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [syn: happen

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Hap

Hap\, v. t. [OE. happen.] To clothe; to wrap.

The surgeon happed her up carefully. --Dr. J. Brown.

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Hap

Hap\, n. [Cf. Hap to clothe.] A cloak or plaid. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

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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.

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.

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Hap

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.

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