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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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