Blue-Grass State.
A name sometimes given to the State of Kentucky, U.S.A., which contains the famous blue grass region, celebrated for the raising of horses.
Blue Laws of Connecticut.
A series of enactments said to have existed in Connecticut, circ. 1640, by which the death penalty was inflicted for idolatry, blasphemy, witchcraft, theft, perjury, adultery and disobedience to parents. It is, however, generally believed that they are apocryphal.
Bluff King Hal.
The nickname of Henry VIII.
Board of Control.
The board established by Pitt’s India Act in 1784 to supervise the Government of India by the East India Company.
Bobbing John.
The sobriquet of the Earl of Mar, the Jacobite leader in the rebellion of 1815. He was a notorious trimmer.