| • | The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. | 
											
															| • | That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which
   specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or
   inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter,
   of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc. | 
											
															| • | The point of time at which a transaction or event takes
   place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as,
   the date of a battle. | 
											
															| • | Assigned end; conclusion. | 
											
															| • | Given or assigned length of life; dyration. | 
											
															| • | To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an
   instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a
   deed, or a charter. | 
											
															| • | To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the
   date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. | 
											
															| • | To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; --
   with from. |