HAP, noun [Latin capio.]
1. That which comes suddenly or unexpectedly; chance; fortune; accident; casual event. [See Chance and Casual.]
Whether art it was or heedless hap
Curs'd by good haps, and curs'd be they that build
Their hopes on haps.
2. Misfortune. [But this word is obsolete or obsolescent, except in compounds and derivatives.]
HAP, verb intransitive To happen; to befall; to come by chance.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the fieldbelonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
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