Hap: Definition and part of speech

Hap

  1. v. i. To happen; to befall; to chance.
  2. v. t. To clothe; to wrap.
  3. n. A cloak or plaid.
  4. n. That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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