Vocabulary : A-tiptoe to Atlases

A-tiptoe : On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
Atlanta : A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
Atlantal : Relating to the atlas. ;; Anterior; cephalic.
Atlantean : Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean. ;; Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong.
Atlantes : Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

Atlantic : Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph. ;; Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis. ;; Descended from Atlas.
Atlantides : The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
Atlas : One who sustains a great burden. ;; The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name. ;; A collection of maps in a volume ;; A volume of plates illustrating any subject. ;; A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas. ;; A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio. ;; A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. ;; A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.
Atlas powder : A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
Atlases : of Atlas

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