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Drill, Pill
duck
Drill, Pill Designation of the process of
providing instructions for taking medicines
prescribed at the Golden Years Clinic—in
You’re Only Old Once!
drinking Action central to Lady Arabella’s
Horse Truth discovery: “You can lead a horse
to water, but you can’t make him drink.”—in
The Seven Lady Godivas See also: cat drinking
drink pink ink Action cited as being one
of the things the creature called Yink likes to
do—in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
drinks Among the “Daisy-Head” products
said to have been created commercially
when “Daisy-Head fever was gripping the
nation”—in Daisy-Head Mayzie
drip Designation of one of the sounds
made (together with “dibble,” “dobble,”
“drop,” and “plop”) by rainfall—in “Rainy
Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the
Hat Song Book
Drize, Desert of Place where the story’s
introducer is said to have met the old man
who sang to him the song constituting the
overall narrative—in Did I Ever Tell You How
Lucky You Are
Droon, Lord Court official of the Kingdom
of Binn who steals King Birtram’s stilts—in
The King’s Stilts
Droonish trick Characterization by Eric of
Lord Droon’s act of falsely saying Eric had
measles and of causing him, accordingly, to
be “locked up in an old deserted house on
the edge of the town”—in The King’s Stilts
droopy-droop feather Single adornment
originally constituting Gertrude McFuzz’s
tail—in “Gertrude McFuzz,” as part of Yertle
the Turtle and Other Stories
drop Designation of one of the sounds
made (together with “dibble,” “dobble,”
“drip,” and “plop”) by rainfall—in “Rainy
Day in Utica, N.Y.,” as part of The Cat in the
Hat Song Book
Drum Major One of several Circus
McGurkus titles accorded Mr. Sneelock—in
If I Ran the Circus
Drum Majorette, Chief Post said to be
held by Miz Yookie-Ann Sue as a member of
the Butter-Up Band—in The Butter Battle Book
“Drummers Drumming” Title of a
round—in The Cat in the Hat Song Book
drumming Action central to the subject of
the song—in “Drummers Drumming,” as
part of The Cat in the Hat Song Book
Drum-Tummied Snumm Circus McGurkus
creature it is said “can drum any tune / That
you might care to hum”—in If I Ran the Circus
Drum-Tummy Designation of the stomach
area on which Circus McGurkus’s Drum-
Tummied Snumm is said to perform—in If I
Ran the Circus
dry One of the conditions (“Dry foot”) of
the subject covered—in The Foot Book
duck and ducks 1: Among the words featured
as part of tongue-twisting texts—in Fox
in Socks 2: Animal that it is said Miss
Bonkers of Diffendoofer School has “taught
. . . to sing”—in Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
3: Among the animals said to be “getting
stuck” to other animals by the oobleck—in
Bartholomew and the Oobleck 4: Among the
creatures about which questions are asked—
in The Cat’s Quizzer 5: Animals, one blue
and one black, that exchange “quack-quacks”
—in Oh Say Can You Say 6: Animals in-
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