Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practices of Burke, the murderer (see
burke , v.); that is, murder of kidnapped victims by smothering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
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