to relieve someone of something, to take something away from something (as in culling kernels or planing wood), to practice a type of healing in which objects said to be causing the illness appear to be drawn from the body (see Molina and Karttunen)
to take (an impersonal verb); combines tla- (something), a-cui- (to take), and -hua (impersonal) Faustino Chimalpopoca Galicia, Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, Tomo 4–5, Primera época, (1854–56), 324.
the place of writing and painting; also the name of a place of worship, a temple made entirely of wood, where Ixtlilton or Tlaltetecuini, was worshipped (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 35.