- Illegal traffic - Prohibited - Illegal or prohibited traffic. - Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of
which is forbidden. - A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband
of war. - Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as,
contraband goods, or trade. - To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to
smuggle.
- Prohibited - Refuse to allow - of Forbid - To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to
interdict. - To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command;
to command not to enter. - To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual
command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army. - To accurse; to blast.