Sentence:  Then take five or six apples, pick out the cores and fill up the holes thus made with flour of brimstone; stop up the holes and cast in the apples to the <WSD>measly</WSD> hog. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms). (from late 16th c.)