burke

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle.
• transitive verb To avoid; disregard.
• transitive verb To execute (someone) by suffocation so as to leave the body intact and suitable for dissection.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To murder by suffocation in order to sell the body for dissection. This method was selected because it left no marks of violence upon the victims.
• Figuratively, to smother; shelve; get rid of by some indirect manœuver: as, to burke a parliamentary question.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb 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.
• verb To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
• noun UK, slang Variant spelling of berk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
• verb murder without leaving a trace on the body
• noun United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
• verb get rid of, silence, or suppress