Date, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. &unr_;, prob. not the same word as daktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
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&hand_; This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.
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Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phœnix dactylifera. See Illust. -- Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus). -- Date shell, or Date fish (Zoöl.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.
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Date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.] 1. 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.
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2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
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&hand_; We may say dated at or from a place.
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The letter is dated at Philadephia. G. T. Curtis.
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You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. Addison.
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In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. M. Arnold.
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