Jastrow: שִׁלְשׁוּל

שִׁלְשׁוּל, שׁי׳ III m. (שול, cmp. שַׁבְּלוּל; v. שַׁלְשֵׁל III) [slimy substance,] 1) slimy abdominal secretion. Gen. R. s. 51, beg. כש׳ הזה שהוא נמחה בצואה like the secretion which is dissolved in the excrements, v. כִּילּוּיָא. —2) snail, worm. R. Hash. 24ᵇ מתחת לרבות ש׳ קטן ‘beneath’ (Ex. XX, 4) this includes the smallest earth-worms. Tosef. Ḥull. II, 18; Ḥull. 40ᵃ השוחט … לשום ש׳ וכ׳ if one kills an animal in the name of mountains … or even of a small worm, such are ‘sacrifices of the dead.’ Ib. 67ᵇ כל לרבות הש׳ והרומה לש׳ ‘whatsoever’ goes up on the belly (Lev. XI, 42), this includes the snail and whatever is like it (worms); Sifra Sh’mini, Par. 10, ch. XII השִׁלְשׁוּלִים (pl.). Gen. R. s. 8; Lev. R. s. 14 ש׳ קדמך the worm has been created before thee (man); a. e.—Pl. שִׁלְשׁוּלִים, שִׁי׳, v. supra.