Noah Webster
Atlas
AT'LAS, noun
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.