The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune, Fortune; hap; that which happens to a person by chance, conceived as having a real tendency to be favorable or unfavorable, or as if there were an inward connection between a succes sion of fortuitous occurrences having the same character as favorable or unfavorable, A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success, intransitive verb_ To gain success or something desirable by chance, To succeed by chance, transitive verb_ To carry out relying on luck