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to go off on a tangent while speaking.
for the people or animals traveling somewhere to go off the road for some reason.
# Persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico no va derecho en su camino. “En el camino nada mas se desvían los toros de Delfino”
Orthographic Variants: 
tlachicotamachiualiztli

the act of measuring something one-eyed (imperfectly) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachicotamachiualli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlachicotamachiuani
for the ground to be uneven in a certain place.
# Algún lado que no esta plano. “es muy disparejo la milpa de Loreano por eso no quiere sembrar.”

the act of purposefully missing something when weighing that which is sold per pound (see Molina)

something wrongly measured and short of being correct, or scanty (see Molina)

the time for harvesting maguey sap (see Sahagún, attestations); a synonym was tlachicoayan

tɬɑhtʃikki
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahchicqui, tlachiqui

a seller of alcoholic beverages (see attestations); someone who collects unfermented maguey sap (tlachique) as a beverage (see Karttunen)

stone used for scraping the maguey plant

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 208.

something smooth

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 64.

another way of saying octli, pulque; in the diminutive; refering to scrapings from the maguey plant (tlachic-; from ichiqui, to scrape maguey)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachiquacencayotia

sixth in order (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachiquacentecca

sixth, the sixth part of something (see Molina)

rare form meaning, when possessed, a week after one's death

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.