How can I make google my real default search engine?

Yes, I have set Google as my preferred search engine in Safari Preferences.
But when I try to do things such as define a word, it uses Bing.
Frankly, I do not care for Bing.
How can I make google always be my search engine?
Thanks

Here you go Andy.
I did learn some things while looking at it.
I need to clean out byTimemachine drive  :-)
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