hap (2), happ, happe

[Icel. happhap, chance; Wel. hap.] 1. That which fortunes or chances to any one; that which comes suddenly or unexpectedly; chance; fortune; accident. "And there by lucky hap had been preserved." Words worth: Excursion, bk. i. 2. Casual events; vici itudes; fortunes; chances. "Her life had full of haps and hazards been." Fairfax . hap-hazard, s. Chance; accident; fortune. "We take our principles at hap- hazard upon trust."Locke. hắp (3), s . (Etym. doubtful, perhaps allied to HEAP (q. v.).) An instrument for scraping up sea ooze to make salt with. "An implement named a hap , a kird of sledge drag, furnished with a sharp edge at that part which touches the ground."-- Agr . Surv. Dumfr ., p. 527. hăp-a-lē, s. [Gr. hapalos =soft, tender.] Zool.: The typical genus of the family Hapalide. Hapale penicil lat a is the Marmoset (q. v.).