contraband

Definitions

1. 1.Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
2. 2.A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. [U.S.] Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.
3. 3.Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. Burke.
4. 4.To import illegaly, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] Johnson.
5. 5.To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is contraband.

• What is goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden called?
• What is prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. Burke called?
• What is to import illegaly, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] Johnson called?
• What is to declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras called?