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instrument (the sense of ‘tool’ is freq.)
1. fig. means agent Tw.N. V. i. 126 (with literal phraseology), 1H6 II. v. 58, Oth. IV. ii. 44.
2. document Oth. IV. i. 231 “I kiss the of their pleasures” (=the document in which their desires are communicated).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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