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Is there an app that allows me to search the mac dictionary from the menu bar? I thought spotlight was able to do this but it doesn't seem to work (in Lion) (I noticed Dictionary isn't even listed in spotlight preferences).
I (stupidly) forgot to mention that I forbade spotlight from indexing my main drive. I thought that would just keep it from searching my files and not affect dictionary search, but I'm guessing that they're all bundled up together.
Try ^+⌘+D while selecting a word (that's ctrl+cmd+d). If the app is well integrated into Mac OS X, it will show a little popup with the word definition.
Like so
If you click "More..", it'll open the dictionary app.
If this shortcut doesn't work, go to
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts > Services
and search Look Up in Dictionary to add the shortcut you want.
I have been using this for a while and it seems to be configurable to do what you need.
Best Answer
Spotlight can do this. You just need to hover your mouse over the "Look Up" entry: