Wharton.
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.
Contrabandism
(Con"tra*band*ism) n. Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.
Contrabandist
(Con"tra*band`ist) n. One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
Contrabass
(Con`tra*bass") n. (Mus.) Double bass; — applied to any instrument of the same deep
range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
Contrabasso
(Con`tra*bas"so) n. [It. contrabasso.] (Mus.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.
Contract
(Con*tract") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contracting.] [L. contractus, p.
p. of contrahere to contract; con- + trahere to draw: cf. F. contracter. See Trace, and cf. Contract,
n.]
1. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract
one's sphere of action.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Dr. H. More.
2. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
Shak.
3. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Each from each contract new strength and light.
Pope.
Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
Swift.
4. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.
Hakluyt.
Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by
law.
Strype.
