noun. undefined

noun. Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported.

noun. Goods that are possessed contrary to law or rule, as in a prison or school.

noun. undefined

noun. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.

noun. Smuggled goods.

noun. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.

noun. An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.

adjective. Prohibited from being imported or exported.

To declare prohibited; forbid.

To import illegally, as prohibited goods; smuggle.

Prohibited or excluded by proclamation, law, or treaty.

noun. Illegal or prohibited traffic.

noun. Anything by law prohibited to be imported or exported.

noun. In the United States, during the civil war, a negro slave, especially an escaped or a captured slave: so called from a decision of General B. F. Butler, in 1861, that slaves coming into his lines or captured were contraband of war, and so subject to confiscation.

adjective. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden.

transitive verb. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.

transitive verb. To declare prohibited; to forbid.

noun. Illegal or prohibited traffic.

noun. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

noun. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.

noun. 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.

noun. any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess

noun. goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods

noun. A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.

adjective. prohibited from being traded

verb. To import illegally; to smuggle.

verb. To declare prohibited; to forbid.

adjective. distributed or sold illicitly

noun. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

"Her cargo was s'posed to be dry goods, provisions an 'lumber, but dere was a good deal more aboard her, guns, powder an' what they call contraband, ef you know jes 'what that is."

innocent  

contraband goods  occasional contraband  

illegal  

merchandise  product  ware  

bullion  clandestine  cocaine  foodstuff  illegal  

Eighteenth Amendment  Prohibition Party  Volstead Act  actionable  against the law