Melting following English female's gush (8)
I believe the answer is:
effusion
'gush' is the definition.
(I know that gush can be written as effusion)
'melting following english female's' is the wordplay.
'melting' becomes 'fusion' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'female' becomes 'f' (common abbreviation).
'e'+'f'='ef'
'fusion' after 'ef' is 'EFFUSION'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for effusion that I've seen before include "Piece of unrestrained writing" , "A pouring forth of thought or feeling" , "Outburst" , "A streaming out" , "Outpouring (of words?)" .)