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a net, or a hand sling (see Karttunen)

See hieroglyphs of the matlatl net in the Codex Mendoza:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl-10v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl-10v-0
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl-59r
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl-12r

to put in order; put together; gather; assemble; to congregate (as in concentrate dispersed settlements after an epidemic, to have more compact communities); to stay put (in the reflexive)

indigenous digging stick with a flat blade; a tool (digging stick, hoe) for working the land (see Molina)

things relating to humans; something humane; humanity

See Molina, Karttunen, and Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 251.

Gemini, a zodiac sign
(a loanword from Spanish)

(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. 2, 128–129.

to collect, assemble, gather together

came to do (purposive action, a motion toward; past tense of quiuh, quihui)

commonly called the "cacao" flower (botanical name: Quararibea funebris), but this is not botanically related to the cacao tree, it is an herb used in making the beverage called tejate; it also has medicinal value (see attestations)

in this context, the highest officer of an indigenous municipality, a Native man; the term came into Nahuatl from Spanish governmental practice
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

In the Codex Mendoza, many different titles (e.g. tlacochtec[uh]tli and tlacatec[uh]tli on 17 verso), in Nahuatl were glossed "gobernador;" gobernador was not just the translation for tlahtoani. In fact, the two titles, tlacochtecuhtli and tlacatecuhtli are paired for both of the two pueblos mentioned on this folio, as though they worked together, and both titles are glossed "governador," as though each pueblo once had these two governing leaders. We see the same pairing for a town on 18 recto, but there we also see that another town's governors had the titles tezcacoacatl and tlilancalqui. (SW)

precious metal, gold, silver (see Molina and Karttunen)

to count; to read; take note of in a census; to relate; to measure

to move, withdraw

to end; to finish, conclude; to cause to end; to destroy; to accuse someone (with ytech)

something old, used, worn, in bad condition (see Karttunen and Carochi/Lockhart)

bird of prey (see Hunn, attestations)

evidence or proof against one who is being tried (see Molina)

"house land" = the garden-field pertaining to a person's house, providing the basic sustenance of the family
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976).

house-land, cultivated land that goes with the dwelling complex of a household
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.

to express, choose, elect

something dry (noun); to become lean; to wither; to dry up, to dry out, for there to be a drought (an intransitive verb) (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)