Dēs'mīne, n.

n. [Fr. desmine, Ger. desmin, from Gr. δέσμη, δεσμός, bundle, from δεῖν, to bind.] (Min.) A mineral that crystallizes in little silken tufts, and is found accompanying spinellane in the lava of extinct volcanoes on the banks of the Rhine; stilbite.