Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Contraband \Con"tra*band\, a.
   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.

Contraband \Con"tra*band\, v. 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.

Contraband \Con"tra*band\, n. [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.

Source : WordNet®

contraband
     adj : distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
           taxes" [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market}, {smuggled}]

contraband
     n : goods whose importation or exportation or possession is
         prohibited by law