an herb whose juice "gets rid of harshness in the chest and is a singular remedy for palpitations and for blood in the bowels; and from this same root is made a very good lime for catching silly little birds"
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 139.
# nic. Una persona acomoda la leña, maíz, y libro porque no quiere que esté revuelto. “Ayer Gerardo no los ordenó el maíz y los puercos se metieron y lo revolvieron todo, y ahora lo regañaron”.
to speak politely and curiously (see Molina); formal conversation (see Sahagún) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 1.