·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.