Light
Light verb - To set (something) on fire.
Offing
Both words in one sentence
- The Kzin aren't terribly intelligent to begin with, and gained the great majority of their technology by rising up against their Jotok masters and offing most of them, and in a universe without FTL technology, it takes a long time for things to propagate over several hundred light-years of empire.
Source: Medieval Stasis
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