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Bloody Assizes – Blue Ridge
Bloody Assizes
those held in England, by Judge Jeffreys, in 1685, after the suppression of Monmouth's rebellion.
Upward of 300 persons were executed after short trials; very many were whipped, imprisoned and fined; and nearly 1,000 were sent as slaves to the American plantations.
Bloody Mary
an epithet popularly applied to Mary, Queen of England, on account of the persecutions of the Protestants during her reign.
Bloom
a lump of puddled iron, which leaves the furnace in a rough state, to be subsequently rolled into the bars or other material into which it may be desired to convert the metal. Also a lump of iron made directly from the ore by a furnace called a bloomery.
Blow-Fly
the name popularly given to such two-winged flies as deposit eggs BLOWING MACHINE in the flesh of animals, thus making tumors arise. Several species of calliphora do this, so do breeze flies, etc.
Blueberry
a name given in the United States to the genus vaccinium, that which contains the bilberry, called in Scotland the blae berry (vaccinium myrtillus). The commonest species are V. pennsylvanicum and V. resinosum.
Blue Bird
a beautiful bird, the sylvia sialis of Wilson. Its whole upper parts are sky blue, shot with purple, with its throat, neck, breast, and sides reddish chestnut, and part of its wings and its tail feathers black. It is about 72 inches long. It has a soft, warbling note, which is one of the first harbingers of spring.
Blue Mantle
one of the English pursuivants at arms, connected with the Heralds' College.
Blue Mountains
a beautiful wooded range of mountains in Oregon, from 8,000 to 9,000 feet high, which, with the Powder River Mountains, separate the Columbia valley from the Great Basin.
Blue Mountains
the central mountain range of Jamaica, the main ridges of which are from 6,000 to 8,000 feet high. Aslo a mountain chain of New South Wales, part of the great Dividing Range. The highest peaks rise over 4,000 feet above the sea. The range is now traversed by a railway, which attains a maximum height of 3,494 feet.
Blue Fish
a noteworthy food and game fish (Pomatomus saltatrix) of the American Atlantic coast from the Gulf northward, also called the skip mack-cury with three of confection of roses erel, and, when young, snappers.
Blue Point
the S. extremity of Patchogue Bay, Long Island, N. Y., which lends its name to the well known oysters-blue points.
Blue Ridge
the most easterly range of the Allegheny Mountains. It forms the continuation of the chain called South Mountain in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It is known as the Blue Ridge till it crosses the James river; thence to North Carolina as Allegheny Mountains; and in North Carolina again as Blue Ridge.