(n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
(n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden.
(n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband
of war.
(a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
contraband goods, or trade.
(v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to
smuggle.
(v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
