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