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molinia.

Headword: 
molinia.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to move, shake, wiggle, wag, or to boil (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

molinia. (pret. omolini.) menearse o bullir algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nican ipan xihuitl omolinitzino in Santa Cruz = En este año se movió milagrosamente la Santa Cruz (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 81.