"grandchild"; in Tlaxcala, however, this is a dependent in a teccalli who may have had closer connections with the nobility and lighter duties than some other dependents; still, Lockhart noticed that the teixhuihuan were sometimes treated like "the bulk of the commoners belonging to the nobles" and "they must be considered commoners in some sense, or the cabildo would not expose them to city tribute work" The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 110, 154.
an image of someone, a substitute, or a delegate (see Molina); a ritual representative of a deity in religious ceremonies (see attestations); see also ixiptla