Q: dictionary on my dashboard is not working. any suggestions?

Log into your Admin. account and try your Dictionary widget.

Hello and thank you for your response.

I have the same problem as foodbytes2 here.

Whenever I press enter in dictionary, it "tries" to drop down and give me a definition, but there seems to be a glitch.

I tried deleting "com.apple.dashboard.plist," but that just erased all my dashboard preferences, without fixing this problem.

I am using a late 2009 Macbook Pro running 10.8.2. My best guess right now is that this is due to the latest OS updates creating a glitch not specific to any one computer, but to many people. Since few people use the dashboard dictionary though, it may have gone unnoticed...

I remain open to any suggestion, since I do like the convenience of the dashboard dicitonary. All in all, I look forward to using this tool again.

Thank you and regards.

I have the exact same problem on a new Retina Macbook Pro using 10.8.2

I solved this problem

I don't know why scroll cursor can made in pink-highlighted region

But, I found a (poor but working) solution as described picture:

Thank you, that worked. Not sure if it's not just a temporary fix though... guess i'll find out!

Thist last one works with me too, thanks J.H.Moon. Genial!

I have this problem also, but i do not understand your solution. How do you fix it?

search Dashboard in Spotlight and click the app.  Worked for me.

Yes, the shaking worked.

What a relief.

Thanks JHM

It looks like if you hover over the top part of the widget, an icon appears (sort of a horizontal line with an arrow coming out of the top and the bottom, making a cross shape). It seems like your are going to "stretch" the widget with this new cursor. Dictionary must be in it's glitched expanded mode (i.e., you've typed in a word to look up and pressed the enter button, and the dictionary widget attempted to expand) for this to work. When cursor changes to the cross hair/arrows, just click with the mouse, and drag up and down rapidly, to "shake" the widget out of it's glitched state.

Thank you sir. Thank you very much. : )

No matter where I try on the app, I cannot get my cursor to change from the arrow. I have the word typed and have pressed enter. I can get the app to wiggle sometimes, and it will try to expand but never actually does. Any suggestions? Thanks.