Bible Dictionaries
Burke
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
(2):
(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Burke'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/burke.html. 1828.