To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
To murder by suffocation.
To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
To block, suppress, restrain.
To take no action on; to hold in reserve without actually using.
To hold an official inquiry regarding; to deliberate about.
To be a member of.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.
To restrain (a person).