AT'LAS, n. 1. A collection of maps in a volume; supposed to be so called from a picture of mount Atlas, supporting the heavens, prefixed to some collection.2. A large square folio, resembling a volume of maps.3. The supporters of a building.4. A silk satin, or stuff, manufactured in the east, with admirable ingenuity. Atlasses are plain, striped, or flowered; but they have not the fine gloss and luster of some French silks.5. The first vertebra of the neck.6. A term applied to paper, as atlas fine.
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