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Con"tra*band (?), n. [It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict.] 1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
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Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.
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2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
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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.]
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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.
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Con"tra*band, a. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
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The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. Burke.
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Con"tra*band, v. t. 1. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] Johnson.
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2. To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.]
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The law severly contrabands
Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras.
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