Atlas

atlas, n. A collection of maps in a volume; a volume of plates or tables; a kind of silks at in; a kind of large drawing paper. (Auat.) The first vertebra of the neck. [Atlas, a Greek demigod, said to bear the world on his shoulders, and whose figure was printed on the title pages of old atlases.] — Atlante'an, a. Pert, to or resembling Atlas. — Atlantes, -lanlez, n. pi. Figures of men, used as columns to sup- — port entablatures. Atlan'tic, a. (Geog.) Pert, to the Atlantic Ocean, or to the isle of At lant is; descended from Atlas.