חוֹרֶשׁ, [difficult of accession,] thicket, wild-growing bushes. Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ ונעשה ח׳ גדול and it grew to a large thicket of reeds; Cant. R. to I, 6. Lev. R. s. 29 ניתש מח׳ זה וכ׳ tears himself loose from one thicket and is caught in another; Y. Taan. II, 65ᵈ top; Pesik. Baḥod., p. 154ᵇ חדש (corr. acc.), v. נָטַשׁ; Yalk. Lev. 645.—Pl. חוֹרָשִׁים, חוֹרָשִׁין, חֳרָשִׁים. B. Kam. 81ᵃ top שהיו מרעין בח׳ that people shall have the privilege of pasture on untilled lands. Ib. 79ᵇ, opp. יישוב. Ib. 80ᵃ. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ top, v. בָּהָה; Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. בחד׳ (corr. acc.).