Definition of "hap" []

• Fortune; chance. (noun)
• A happening; an occurrence. (noun)
• To happen. (verb-intransitive)

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• "O my lord, this hap is what I dreamt last night; and, when I awoke,"
• "And Uther with his men drew to the mount, and had lost in the fight his dear knights, full seven hundred—-his hap was the worse!"
• "Thus happiness, according to the original use of the term, is that which happens, or comes to one by a hap, that is, by an outward befalling, or favorable condition."