Plum

·noun A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

II. Plum ·noun A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

III. Plum ·noun The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

IV. Plum ·add. ·noun Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, ·etc.