Contraband

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.