גּוּשׁ II, , v. preced.) something substantial, lump, clod, ball. Nidd. 23ᵃ ההיא ג׳ איקרי such a shapeless fetus is called gush (a ball, stone). Y. ib. II, 50ᵇ ג׳ של אדמה a clod of earth. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵈ top; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵇ bot. ג׳ עפר a handfull of Palestine earth. Toh. V, 1 ג׳ מארץ העמים a lump of imported clay, v. Sabb. 14ᵇ.—Y. Ḥall. III, 59ᵃ when the dough is formed into ג׳ אחד one cohesive mass; a. fr.—Pl. גּוּשִׁין. Lam. R. to I, 20 (explain. חמרמרו ib.) עשאן ג׳ ג׳ their bowels were pressed to lumps (v. חמרם Ex. VIII, 10). B. Mets. 101ᵃ נעקרו בגוּשֵׁיהֶן they were uprooted with their clods of earth (attached to the roots). Y. ib. VIII, end 11ᵈ [read:] בששטפן בגושיהן when the river swept them away with their clods.—גּוּשׁ חֵלֶב pr. n. pl. (Fat Ground) Gush-Heleb, Giscala (Neub. Géogr. p. 230) in Galilee. Arakh. IX, 6. Tosef. Men. IX, 5; a. e.—גּוּשׁ חֶלְבָּאֵי m. pl. inhabitants of Giscala. Pesik. B’shall. p. 94ᵃ; Koh. R. to XI, 2.