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Webster 1913 Edition

Contraband

Con′tra-band

,
Noun.
[It.
contrabando
;
contra
+
bando
ban, proclamation: cf. F.
contrebande
. See
Ban
an edict.]
1.
Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent
contraband
, and the most interested in the seizures.
Burke.
2.
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
3.
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.

Con′tra-band

,
Adj.
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.

Con′tra-band

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
2.
To declare prohibited; to forbid.
[Obs.]
The law severly
contrabands

Our taking business of men’s hands.
Hudibras.

Webster 1828 Edition

Contraband

CONTRABAND

,
Adj.
[See Ban.] Prohibited. Contraband goods are such as are prohibited to be imported or exported, either by the laws of a particular kingdom or state, or by the law of nations, or by special treaties. In time of war, arms and munitions of war are not permitted by one belligerent, to be transported to the other, but are held to be contraband and liable to capture and condemnation.

CONTRABAND

,
Noun.
1.
Prohibition of trading in goods, contrary to the laws of a state or of nations.
2.
Illegal traffick.

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