contraband

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported.
2. n. Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.
3. n. Smuggled goods.
4. n. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.
5. n. An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.
6. adj. Prohibited from being imported or exported.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Prohibited or excluded by proclamation, law, or treaty.
2. n. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
3. n. Anything by law prohibited to be imported or exported.
4. n. 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.
5. To declare prohibited; forbid.
6. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; smuggle.

Wiktionary

1. n. uncountable any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess
2. n. uncountable goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods
3. n. countable, US, historical A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.
4. adj. prohibited from being traded
5. v. obsolete To import illegally; to smuggle.
6. v. obsolete To declare prohibited; to forbid.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. distributed or sold illicitly
2. n. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law