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[Ital.] Music: A series of seven musical instruments made of terra cotta pierced with small holes, invented by a company of performers calling them selves the Mountaineers of the A pennines. With these instruments, which are of a soft and sweet, yet "traveling" quality of tone, operatic melodies with simply harmonized accompaniments were given. Oc-cam-ite, s . [See def.] Hist. & Philos . ( pl .): The revivers of Nominalism, who followed William of Occam (died 1347), and whose opposition to Realism brought about the decline of the scholastic philosophy. ( Blunt .)