Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Atlantes \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.