stannar, stannery

& 8. [Low Lat. stannaria=a tin-mine, from Lat. stannum =tin, an alloy of silver and lead; cf. Cornish stean; Welsh ystaen; Bret. stean; Ir. stan; Gael. staoin; Manx stainney=tin.] A. As adj .: Pertaining or relating to tin-mines. "The stannary courts in Devons hire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record, but of the same private and exclusive nature." -Black stone : Commentaries , bk. iii., ch. 6. B. As subst.: A tin-mine, tin-works. The term is generally used to include in one general designation all the tin-mines within a certain district, the miners employed in working them, and the customs and privileges attached to the mines and those employed in them. "If by public law the mint were ordained to be onely supplied by our stannaries , how currently would they pa for more precious than silver mines?"- Bp . Hall : Select Thoughts. stăn-nāte, s. [Eng. stann(ic); -ate.] Chem.: A salt of stannic acid.