Atlas

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who sustains a great burden.

II. Atlas ·noun A collection of maps in a volume.

III. Atlas ·noun A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

IV. Atlas ·noun A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

V. Atlas ·noun A drawing paper of large size. ·see under Paper, ·noun.

VI. Atlas ·noun A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps;

— called also atlas folio.

VII. Atlas ·noun A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

VIII. Atlas ·noun The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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