Aztecs (Az`tecs) , a civilised race of small stature, of reddish-brown skin, lean, and broad featured, which occupied the Mexican plateau for some centuries before the Spaniards visited it, and were overthrown by the Spaniards in 1520.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Az`rael * Azuni, Dominico Alberto