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.

A large square folio, resembling a volume of maps.

The supporters of a building.

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.

The first vertebra of the neck.

A term applied to paper, as atlas fine.