With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
The weight of mightiest monarchies.
Milton.
||At*lan"tes (&?;), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, pl. of &?;. See Atlas.] (Arch.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.
At*lan"tic (&?;), a. [L. Atlanticus, fr. Atlas. See Atlas and Atlantes.] 1. 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.