(n.) A collection of maps in a volume 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; --   called also atlas folio. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A volume of plates illustrating any subject. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or   arrangement; as, an historical atlas. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) One who sustains a great burden. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately   with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.