Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Boutefeu \Boute"feu\, n. [F.; bouter to thrust, put + feu fire.]
   An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.]

         Animated by . . . John [`a] Chamber, a very boutefeu, .
         . . they entered into open rebellion.    --Bacon.