Atlantic (1)

& s. [In Fr. At lant i que; Sp., Port., & Ital. Atlantico; Lat. Atlantic us; Gr. ̓Ατλαντικός ( Atlantikos ).] A. As adjective: Pertaining or relating to the ocean so designated. "The murmurs of th' Atlantic wave." Cowper: Task, bk. iv. B. As substantive : The great ocean between Europe and Africa on the one side and America on the other, divided into the Northern, the Intertropical, and the Southern, or simply into the Northern and Southern Atlantic. Globiger "The doctrine that there has been a continuous formation of Globigerina mud on the bottom of the Atlantic from the Cretaceous epoch to the present time... must be admitted as (to say the least) a not improbable hypothesis."- Dr . W. Carpenter. (Ency. Brit., 9th ed., iff. 21.) * At-lăn'-tic (2), a. [ATLANTEAN.] At-lăn-ti-ca, s. [AT LANT IS.]