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Sherlock's Dictionary is broken

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bobblemeyer

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Original poster
A few months ago the Dictionary inside of Sherlock lost its power. It used to be great: it gave an instant definition along with a wide variety of thesaurus items.
Now it no longer gives a definition, just thesaurus items.
Typically it says:
_____________________

"word"
"word": in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
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Does anyone know how to get the dictionary to work again?

I've already run disk utilities.

Thanks,
Craig
 
It's dead, Jim. Apple gradually gave up on maintaining the Internet services behind Sherlock, and if their erstwhile partners aren't interested in playing any more, that's about that. Sherlock's been not-so-subtly pushed out of the way by Dashboard, for worse or for worse.
 
puckhead193 said:
isn't their like a key combination that you can highlight the word and from the word a box expands with the definition. Anyone know what i'm talking about
Click to expand...
ctrl-cmd-D.

Only works from Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc., ie Cocoa appliations, and not - ket's say - Firefox... 🙁
 
There's an awesome extension for Firefox that sort of recreates the dictionary functionality: if you double click on a word a definition pops up. I believe it's called Dictionary Tooltip.
 
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