What is the definition of word demense?

Found this word in the game "Super Text Twist" and it is not in my Webster's dictionary.What is the definition of word demense?
The central part of a manorial estate set apart for the lord鈥檚 own use that provided for the needs of his household. For example, such a demense might contain: a manor house and 鈥榗lose鈥?of small acreage, a pigeon house, a mill, fishery, wood lots containing trees for logging, arable land up to 500 acres or so, meadows for grazing and pasturelands.

http://www.chronique.com/Library/Glossar鈥?/a>What is the definition of word demense?
demense



A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.What is the definition of word demense?
That's a common misspelling of demesne meaning the following:



1 Possession and use of one's own land.

2 Manorial land retained for the private use of a feudal lord.

3 The grounds belonging to a mansion or country house.

4 An extensive piece of landed property; an estate.

5 A district; a territory.

6 A realm; a domain.





Are you given a context? I would bet this is the word it meant.