"tarten" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1956, Library Journal, volume 81, page 2257:",
          "text": "These faults in a scholar tend to tarten the writing, to enliven the reader.",
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          "ref": "1964, Long Island Forum, volumes 27-29, page 169:",
          "text": "I loved their shouts of welcome as I trudged across the fields carrying the heavy jug. Mama mixed the old time drink from cold well water, a pinch of ginger, molasses and some vinegar to tarten it.",
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          "text": "He knew precisely when to spice the orchestration with percussive pepper, when to add a pinch more of sugar, when to tarten the mixture with a squeeze or two of lime.",
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          "text": "[…] her sweetness tartened as one side of her clutched loyalty, the other love.",
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