n. [ It. contrabando; contra + bando ban, proclamation: cf. F. contrebande. See Ban an edict. ] 1. Illegal or prohibited traffic. [ 1913 Webster ]
Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Mus.) The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family; the double bass; -- also applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon. [ 1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
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