tilini.

Headword: 
tilini.
Principal English Translation: 

to tighten, to constrict (see Kartunnen)

IPAspelling: 
tiːliːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tilini. (pret. otilin.) apretarse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 113r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĪLĪN(I) to tighten, constrict / apretarse (M) In T the medial L varies with R. See TĪLĪNIĀ.

TĪLĪNTIĀ caus. TĪLĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 240.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tilini (verb) = to crowd, to press
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 163.