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.

May the cursor is somewhere up on the dictionary (above dictionary)