miserly, scarce, and in shortage supply (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
atle quicaualiztlamati
Alonso de Molina:
atle quicaualiztlamati. auariento, escasso y apretado. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.