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micuania.

Headword: 
micuania.
Principal English Translation: 

to move, withdraw

Orthographic Variants: 
miquania
Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh niman ye yc onmiquania yn Mexica yn oncan acuezcomac = And thereupon the Mexica withdrew to Acuezcomac. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 90–91.

tla xonahuia huehuetitlan xonmiquani = enjoy yourself, move over next to the drum (suggesting a possible alternate translation of a passage from the Cantares Mexicanos, Bierhorst, 248–49, verse 18)
James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.