Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUC'COR, n.

1. Aid; help; assistance; particularly, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress. My father / Flying for succor to his servant Banister. – Shak.
2. The person or thing that brings relief. The city when pressed received succors from an unexpected quarter. The mighty succor which made glad the foe. – Dryden.