Offing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Offing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Offing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
offing n the near or foreseeable future; "there was a wedding in the offing" the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area; "there was a ship in the offing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Offing \Off"ing\, n. [From {Off}.] That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.