Part 2357

<hw>Con`tour`n\'82'</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., p.p. of <ets>contourner</ets> to twist.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.</def>

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<hw>Con*tour"ni*a`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Contorniate</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Numis.)</fld> <def>Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.</def>

<h1>Contra</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con"tra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying <i>against</i>, <i>contrary</i>, <i>in opposition</i>, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. <er>Counter</er>, <i>adv</i>. & <i>pref</i>.</def>

<h1>Contraband</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con"tra*band</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>contrabando</ets>; <ets>contra + bando</ets> ban, proclamation: cf. F. <ets>contrebande</ets>. See <er>Ban</er> an edict.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Illegal or prohobited traffic.</def>

<blockquote>Persons the most bound in duty to prevent <b>contraband</b>, and the most interested in the seizures. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<cs><col>Contraband of war</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<h1>Contraband</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con"tra*band</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; <as>as, <ex>contraband</ex> goods, or trade</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>contraband</b> will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con"tra*band</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To import illegaly, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To declare prohibited; to forbid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The law severly <b>contrabands</b> Our taking business of men's hands. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contrabandism</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con"tra*band*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.</def>

<h1>Contrabandist</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con"tra*band`ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.</def>

<h1>Contrabass</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con`tra*bass"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; <as>as, the <ex>contrabass</ex> ophicleide; the <ex>cotrabass</ex> tuba or bombardon.</as></def>

<h1>Contrabasso</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con`tra*bas"so</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>contrabasso</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The largest kind of bass viol. See <er>Violone</er>.</def>