Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Burked"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Burke \Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Burking}.] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the
crime in 1829.]
1. 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. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to
smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by
such a mass of a affidavits. --C. Reade.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
burked
adj : suppressed quietly or indirectly [syn: {burked(p)}]
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