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Joseph who is a
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Turns out OS X's built in Dictionary has the ability to add custom dictionaries, but not much support.
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I could not find any resources distributing Mac OS X .dictionary files
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There is an open source project called StarDict and they have some repositories of dictionaries.
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They are a bit hard to find, but here is a directory
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The medical one I could find is under 'Babylon' (another project) --> Health Dictionaries
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Also are computing, language, biblical, and other dictionaries in the project.
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StarDict files are not OS X Dictionary compatible
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Luckily there is a converter. DictUnifier
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Under the Mac Dictionary Kit Google Project
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I had mixed results with the latest 2.0b3 version
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There is a big opportunity here
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Apple Developer Docs on "Dictionary Services"
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OS X Dictionary files use and XML schema and can be built fairly easily with a basic text editor
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The files then get "compiled" using a command line tool
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Download Apple's developer tools
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Developer-->Extras-->Dictionary Development Kit
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There is a project-template folder that contains the basic stuff
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XML, CSS, PLIST, and MAKE file.
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"other resources" folder for images, XSL, Preferences (for in Dictionary app)
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Once you have a valid .Dictionary file
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Installed in ~/Library/Dictionaries
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