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tlilhuahuana.

Headword: 
tlilhuahuana.
Principal English Translation: 

to draw; to make lines with ink; to cross out something written (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tliluauana
Alonso de Molina: 

tliluauana. nitla. (pret. onitlatlilhuauan.) debuxar, hazer rayas con tinta, o cancelar escriptura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlilhuahuanqui nican tlami amo no yehuatl mopovaz = Lo tachado aquí termina: no se debe leer así (Tlaxcala, 1603)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVII, Serie Administrativa (1600–1699), vol. II (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 14.

themes: 
Writing, Literacy